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Folio 99: W. H. Lyttleton to Viscount Weymouth. Describes the latest legal and administrative...

Catalogue reference: SP 89/69/25

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This record is about the Folio 99: W. H. Lyttleton to Viscount Weymouth. Describes the latest legal and administrative... dating from 1769 July 27 in the series Secretaries of State: State Papers Foreign, Portugal. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SP 89/69/25
Date
1769 July 27
Description

Folio 99: W. H. Lyttleton to Viscount Weymouth. Describes the latest legal and administrative steps taken by the government to bring the Church and the Inquisition under the direct control of the Crown. The objective is "to make the Crown as absolute in ecclesiastical matters as it is in civil". Any future accommodation with the See of Rome "will be upon terms which that Court will have little reason to boast of.".

Date and place: 1769 July 27 Lisbon.

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